What's wrong with America?

[grunt11b]

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This is how the eletist think of you.
Are you happier now that you know what they think of you AFTER you voted for them? Dumbasses. HAHA! It's the truth. But the libtards won't admit it.
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[VaYank5150]

LiveLeak.com - What's the Matter With America? (Soros, Huffington, Maher, & Olbermann Can't Be Wrong)
This is how the eletist think of you.
Are you happier now that you know what they think of you AFTER you voted for them? Dumbasses. HAHA! It's the truth. But the libtards won't admit it.
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What's an "eletist"? And why are they thinking of me?

 

[grunt11b]

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[grunt11b]

LiveLeak.com - What's the Matter With America? (Soros, Huffington, Maher, & Olbermann Can't Be Wrong)
This is how the eletist think of you.
Are you happier now that you know what they think of you AFTER you voted for them? Dumbasses. HAHA! It's the truth. But the libtards won't admit it.
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What's an "eletist"? And why are they thinking of me?

If you really need me to explain it, then there is no hope for you.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I think it is clear that I am not a liberal...but I can't see much wrong with that the "elites" were saying.

Generally speaking...people are stupid, lazy and uninformed..and increasingly so.
Consider...
Decades ago popular TV shows included numerous news-related shows.
Newspaper sales averaged 80% of all households.
Nightly news audience was almost double what it is today.

 

[bucs90]

Americans are indeed fat, lazy slobs. Well, about 50% of the country is. The other 50% support the fat side.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

LiveLeak.com - What's the Matter With America? (Soros, Huffington, Maher, & Olbermann Can't Be Wrong)
This is how the eletist think of you.
Are you happier now that you know what they think of you AFTER you voted for them? Dumbasses. HAHA! It's the truth. But the libtards won't admit it.
LiveLeak.com - President Barrack Obama Explained

What's an "eletist"?

When Conservakiddies have the day "off", from school, it's how they spell......



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[bigrebnc1775]

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This is how the eletist think of you.
Are you happier now that you know what they think of you AFTER you voted for them? Dumbasses. HAHA! It's the truth. But the libtards won't admit it.
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What's an "eletist"?

When Conservakiddies have the day "off", from school, it's how they spell......



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[M14 Shooter]

What's wrong with America?

The mindset that, buy virtue of being an American, you are entitled to a certain standard of living, and that, if you do not enjoy that standard of living, it is someone else's fault, and so the government should provide you with said standard of living.

 

[Anachronism]

Interestingly enough, I would suggest that the vast majority of Americans are most of the things that were suggested in the video. I wouldn't include "racist" or "mean", but the first half dozen or so of the adjectives I think DO represent the majority of Americans today.

Of course, I think that because most Americans today see little wrong with the way this country operates, the way our society runs, the way our lives are lived, and pretty much everything else about this country, it's history, and what it was intended to be. That's what got us into this situation in the first place.... people too uninvolved, stupid, and scared to do what was RIGHT rather than what was EASY.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I think it is clear that I am not a liberal...but I can't see much wrong with that the "elites" were saying.

Generally speaking...people are stupid, lazy and uninformed..and increasingly so.
Consider...
Decades ago popular TV shows included numerous news-related shows.
Newspaper sales averaged 80% of all households.
Nightly news audience was almost double what it is today.[/QUOTE

All your points can be shot down with one word...Internet.
And I would bet people are smarter because of it.

 

[Anachronism]

All your points can be shot down with one word...Internet. And I would bet people are smarter because of it.

Actually I'd suggest that most people are much STUPIDER because of the internet. For example, the students who I know have tried to pass Wikipedia articles off as "research" for school projects. The internet is much too vast and unregulated to allow stupid people to really improve themselves because of it.

 

[Sheldon]

I think it is clear that I am not a liberal...but I can't see much wrong with that the "elites" were saying.

Generally speaking...people are stupid, lazy and uninformed..and increasingly so.
Consider...
Decades ago popular TV shows included numerous news-related shows.
Newspaper sales averaged 80% of all households.
Nightly news audience was almost double what it is today.[/QUOTE

All your points can be shot down with one word...Internet.
And I would bet people are smarter because of it.

I'm pretty sure the interent is used mainly for lolcats, porn, and facebook.

It's a tool, and imo has become not so much an academic library, but a reflection of human nature and a medium that gives everyone a bullhorn for their opinions and ideas.

It's like a restaurant with a buffet of facts and factiness where you can pick and choose what you want to know based on how fragile your world view is--it means you get to know more stuff faster, but I think that doesn't necessarily equates to getting smarter.

 

[goldcatt]

All your points can be shot down with one word...Internet. And I would bet people are smarter because of it.

Actually I'd suggest that most people are much STUPIDER because of the internet. For example, the students who I know have tried to pass Wikipedia articles off as "research" for school projects. The internet is much too vast and unregulated to allow stupid people to really improve themselves because of it.

Two words: Confirmation bias.

That's why the internet doesn't make anyone smarter. More able to regurgitate the factoids they just googled perhaps, but that has nothing to do with being smarter if they can't fully understand and synthesize those factoids into something resembling coherence.

 

[Anachronism]

Two words: Confirmation bias.

That's why the internet doesn't make anyone smarter. More able to regurgitate the factoids they just googled perhaps, but that has nothing to do with being smarter if they can't fully understand and synthesize those factoids into something resembling coherence.

Exactly, goldcatt.

I grew up having to do actual research to find information. You remember that wacky place called a LIBRARY, the Dewey Decimal System, the Card Catalogue, things like that. Todays kids don't know what any of them are, nevermind how to use them. Not like they'd be willing to take the time to actually read the book and extract the information that way, even if they could find the book.

 

[Defiant1]

The biggest problem with America and the root of just about every problem we are facing is the degradation of the American family.

 

[Anachronism]

The biggest problem with America and the root of just about every problem we are facing is the degradation of the American family.

I would take it one step further and suggest that the degradation of the American family is actually due to the loss of morals, ideals, and values in Society. It's probably splitting hairs, but I think the family issue is more a symptom than the actual problem.

 

[goldcatt]

Two words: Confirmation bias.

That's why the internet doesn't make anyone smarter. More able to regurgitate the factoids they just googled perhaps, but that has nothing to do with being smarter if they can't fully understand and synthesize those factoids into something resembling coherence.

Exactly, goldcatt.

I grew up having to do actual research to find information. You remember that wacky place called a LIBRARY, the Dewey Decimal System, the Card Catalogue, things like that. Todays kids don't know what any of them are, nevermind how to use them. Not like they'd be willing to take the time to actually read the book and extract the information that way, even if they could find the book.

Oh, I remember it well. And call me crazy, but I still prefer to do my serious reading on ink and paper. And my work related to it with bookmarks and highlighters and notepads and pens.

I also go out of my way to look up both sides of an issue before setting my mind in stone, if I can find both sides of every issue that is. It rarely (but not never) changes my view, but the old saying is true: One must understand their opponent's argument before they can truly understand their own. The old basics of the art of persuasion seem to be lost even on the grownups for the most part.

Add those two things together, the confirmation bias and the sheer laziness of copy and pasting a half-digested factoid from google, and the internet really does make a lot of people dumb. And yet there are a lot of great tools and primary sources out there that make it a potentially fantastic tool if it would only be used that way.

 

[Anachronism]

Add those two things together, the confirmation bias and the sheer laziness of copy and pasting a half-digested factoid from google, and the internet really does make a lot of people dumb. And yet there are a lot of great tools and primary sources out there that make it a potentially fantastic tool if it would only be used that way.

So very, very true. I find it most unfortunate that so many people today have no real idea of what's going on, and what the reality of things is, when the truth is so readily available if you're just willing to do the slightest bit of work to gather it together.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Two words: Confirmation bias.

That's why the internet doesn't make anyone smarter. More able to regurgitate the factoids they just googled perhaps, but that has nothing to do with being smarter if they can't fully understand and synthesize those factoids into something resembling coherence.

Exactly, goldcatt.

I grew up having to do actual research to find information. You remember that wacky place called a LIBRARY, the Dewey Decimal System, the Card Catalogue, things like that. Todays kids don't know what any of them are, nevermind how to use them. Not like they'd be willing to take the time to actually read the book and extract the information that way, even if they could find the book.

Oh, I remember it well. And call me crazy, but I still prefer to do my serious reading on ink and paper. And my work related to it with bookmarks and highlighters and notepads and pens.

I also go out of my way to look up both sides of an issue before setting my mind in stone, if I can find both sides of every issue that is. It rarely (but not never) changes my view, but the old saying is true: One must understand their opponent's argument before they can truly understand their own. The old basics of the art of persuasion seem to be lost even on the grownups for the most part.

Add those two things together, the confirmation bias and the sheer laziness of copy and pasting a half-digested factoid from google, and the internet really does make a lot of people dumb. And yet there are a lot of great tools and primary sources out there that make it a potentially fantastic tool if it would only be used that way.

Nice. Read, read, read, read, read, and keep on reading. Admire your ink and paper. I still do that and get the most out of it. It actually sticks with me.